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Singapore Telecommunications Ltd on Wednesday said its fiscal fourth-quarter net profit declined 32.6% because it booked a loss on the sale of its equity stake in a Pakistan company. (14 May) - Net profit for the quarter ended March 31 was 868 million Singapore dollars ($698 million), compared with S$1.29 billion a year earlier,... 

Paul Tang, proprietor of the People’s Recreation Community bookstore in Hong Kong, which specializes in banned works. (18 May) - Visitors from mainland China climb the narrow stairs to a cramped room here filled with forbidden delights: shelves of scandal-packed exposés about their Communist Party masters. The People’s... 

Food hawker Abdus Salam abandoned his engineering career to take over his father's stall (16 May) - Ask any Singaporean what the country's favourite local pastime is, and there's a good chance they will say "eating". Singapore's food courts, known as hawker centres, are one of the country's most-loved institutions, providing...